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of the New York delegation in the Republican National Convention in 1860, and in that body nominated William HI. Seward for the Presi- dency. In 1861 he and Horace Greeley were rival candidates for the United States Senate before the New York Legislature. Evarts withdrew in favor of Ira Harris, who was elected. Throughout the administration of President Hayes, Mr. Evarts was Secretary of State. At the close of his term he was appointed the delegate from the United States to the International Monetary Conference at Paris in 1881. Hle was United States Senator from New York from March 4, 1885. to March 3, 1891, and was the leader of the Republican party in the Sen- ate. He has delivered many notable orations on important _public occasions. He was born in Boston, Mass., February 6, 1818, and is the son of the late Jeremiah Evarts, well known as a philanthropist.
CARTER, JAMES COOLIDGE, was graduated from Harvard Col- lege in 1850, from the Harvard Law School in 1853, and the same year was admitted to the bar at New York, where he has since followed his profession. He stands at the head of his profession in this city. He is senior member of the firm of Carter & Ledyard, has been Presi- dent of the Bar. AAssociation of the City of New York, and since its organization in 1892 has been President of the City Club, founded with a view to reform in municipal government. He is also a mem- ber of the Metropolitan, Union League, Century, University, and Alpha Delta Phi clubs. He was a factor in the overthrow of the Tweed ring, was one of the founders of the Bar Association, organ- ized at that time, and was counsel for the people in the suit to recover $6,000,000 from Tweed. In 1875, Governor Tilden appointed him a member of the commission to recommend a form of municipal gov- erment for the cities of the State of New York. He has been counsel for the City of New York in many of its most important cases in the Court of Appeals. As an authority on international law his repu- tation is more than national. He represented the United States Goy- ernment before the Tribunal of Arbitration at Paris in 1893 on the seal fishery question. He was counsel of the Federal Government in the notable income tax cases in the United States Supreme Court. In the same court he was counsel in the case of the Scotia, in cases to recover from A. T. Stewart & Co .; in the Madame Jumel will liti- gations, in the Bate Refrigerator litigation, in the test case to deter- mine the constitutionality of the law excluding Chinese laborers, in cases testing the United States land grants to transcontinental rail- roads, in the Counselman case, the Louisiana lottery cases, and many others. Ile has published " The Proposed Codification of our Com- mon Law." " The Provinces of the Written and the Unwritten Law." and " The Ideal and the Actual in the Law." He was born in Lancas- ter, Mass., October 14, 1827, and is the son of Major Solomon Carter and Elizabeth White. He lineally descends from Rev. Thomas Carter.
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who was educated at St. John's College, Cambridge, England, came to America in 1635, and was minister of the church at Woburn, Mass., for forty-two years.
CURTIS, GEORGE WILLIAM, was one of the most distinguished citizens of New York, and wielded a powerful national influence in inculcating high ideals in the administration of public affairs. (For portrait, see Volume I., page 484, of this work.) While he was a popular lyceum lecturer and delivered orations on many notable pub- lic occasions, the chief medium of the propagation of his views was Harper's Weekly, of which he was political editor from 1864 until his death, August 31, 1892. In early days he was a member of the famous Brook Farm Colony, and subsequently spent eighteen months at Con- cord as the companion of Emerson and Hawthorne; but while most of these philosophical spirits were mere theorists, Curtis applied hin- self to practical affairs, and seeking only to impose what was feasible, had the satisfaction of seeing many of the principles for which he contended practically applied in public administration. Civil-service reforin affords a notable instance. Our local history in recent years has also emphasized the wisdom of his contention that patriotismn should so triumph over partisanship that party affiliations are freely repudiated whenever machine politicians dominate to the extent of imposing mufit candidates who can not be trusted not to turn gov- ernment into a public scandal. Born in Providence, February 24, 1824, he removed with his parents to New York at the age of fifteen, and was a merchant's clerk prior to his connection with Brook Farm. Subsequent to that episode he traveled for four years in Europe, Egypt, and Syria, and in 1850 published his " Nile Notes of a How- adji." The same year he joined the editorial staff of the New York Tribune, while a series of letters contributed to that journal were re- published under the title of " Lotus Eating." Putnam's Monthly hav- ing been established in 1852, he soon became its editor, and when the enterprise failed " with unexampled generosity and nicety of honor, sacrificed his private fortune and mortgaged his future carnings to save the creditors of the periodical from loss." "Potiphar Papers " and " Prue and I " were republications from this magazine. His first novel, " Trumps," a satirical exposure of fashionable life, appeared as a serial in Harper's Weekly in 1858-9, while the " Lounger " series appeared in the same in 1858. For six years prior to 1873 he contrib- nted to Harper's Basar the series, " Manners on the Road, by an Old Bachelor." In addition to his notable service as political editor of the Weekly, he also long contributed the " Easy Chair," a depart- ment in Harper's Monthly Magasine. Always au opponent of slav- ery, he supported Fremont in the campaign of 1856, and was a dele- gate to the Republican National Conventions which nominated Lincoln, in 1860 and 1864. He refused the post of Consul-Gen-
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eral to Egypt offered him by Lincoln in 1862. Congressional can- didate in the First District of this city in 1864, he was defeated with the rest of the local Republican ticket. The same year he became a Regent of the State University. He was a member of the Constitutional Convention of 1867 and Chairman of its Committee on Education. In 1SGS he was a Presidential elector. Appointed by President Grant in 1871 one of the commission to draught regulations for the Federal civil service, he was elected President of the commis- sion, as also of the Advisory Board which succeeded it. His early and constant love for the Republican party deeply emphasized the signifi- cance of his repudiation of the nomination of James G. Blaine for the Presidency in 1884, and his advocacy of the candidacy of Grover Cleve- land, who had just made his splendid record as Mayor of Buffalo and Governor of New York.
DANA, CHARLES ANDERSON, editor and principal proprietor of the New York Sun from 1867 until his death in October, 1897. occu- pied a conspicuous place in the history of American journalism. He was frequent- ly styled the " dean " and the " Nestor " among journalists of the United States; but-his great professional merit lay in the remarkable degree in which he intro- duced literary workmanship of a high grade into journalism without sacrificing -but rather promoting-the character of his organ as a newspaper. He was born in Hinsdale, N. Il., Angust S. 1819. spent two years at Harvard, although failing eyesight did not permit him to graduate, and subsequently joined the Brook Farm community. He was an active contributor to the periodical of the community, the Harbinger, and later CHARLES ANDERSON DANA. joined the staff of the Boston Chronotype. In 1847 he became connected with the New York Tribune, and during 1848 served that and several other journals as European correspondent. He was managing editor of the Tribune from 1849 to 1862. resigning in the latter year because of his disagreement with Horace Greeley's war policy. He was then ap- pointed Assistant Secretary of War, and was subsequently the con- fidential representative of Lincoln and his Cabinet on the field. Ilis own account of this service was completed shortly before his death. and has been published in serial form in one of the magazines. After the war and prior to his connection with the New York Sun, he was for a time on the staff of the Chicago Tribune. He had a remarkable
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command of ancient and modern languages, traveled much abroad, was an art connoisseur, an expert on porcelains, and an authority on horticulture. With George Ripley he planned and edited Appleton's " New American Cyclopedia "; in collaboration with General James II. Wilson wrote a " Life of General Grant," and compiled the " Household Book of Poetry." and " Fifty Perfect Poems." Ile mar- ried, in 1846, Eunice MeDaniel, of Maryland, who survives him, and had one son-Paul Dana-and three daughters-Mrs. William H. Draper, Mrs. John W. Brannan. and Mrs. Walter M. Underhill. He was the son of Andersou Dana and Ann Denison. grandson of Daniel Dana and Dollie Kibbee, great-grandson of Anderson Dana, who per- ished in the Wyoming massacre, in which he was volunteer Aid to Colonel Zebulon Butler, and was descended from Richard Dana, who settled in Cambridge. Mass., in 1640.
DANA, PAUL, succeeded his father, the late distinguished Charles Anderson Dana, as Editor of the New York Sun. and President of the Sun Printing and Publishing Association. He had previously been for many years a Park Commissioner of New York City, and was President of the Board of Park Commissioners. He was also long an editorial writer on the Sun. He was born in this city in 1852. and was educated at Harvard. He married Mary Duncan. Ile is a mem- ber of the Sons of the American Revolution, and of the Racquet, Uni- versity, Harvard, Rockaway Hunting, and Westminster Kennel clubs.
GILDER, RICHARD WATSON, poet, and editor of the Century Magasine, has been actively connected with many public interests. Ile was Secretary of the Art and Exhibition Committee of the New York Centennial celebration in 1889; Secretary of the Washington Memorial Arch Committee; a member of the New York General Com- mittee on the World's Fair; the first President of the Kindergarten Association of this city, and is a member of the General Committee of the People's Municipal League of New York. He has long main- tained a department in the Century in which public questions are discussed, his position being similar to that sustained editorially in Harper's Weekly and the New York Erening Post. A member of many clubs, he has been President of the Fellowcraft Club, and assisted in founding the Society of American Artists, the American Copyright League, the Free Art League, and the Authors' Club. He has pub- lished three volumes of poems, which appeared in a new edition in 1887 under the titles, " The New Day." " The Celestial Passion," and " Lyrics." Born at Bordentown, N. J., February S. 1844, he is the son of Rev. W. H. Gilder, a Methodist clergyman, who also edited the Philadelphia Repository and the Literary Register, and grandson of John Gilder, a well-known Philadelphian who served in the Penn- sylvania Legislature and as Chairman of the Building Committee of
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Girard College. From the age of twelve Mr. Gilder dabbled in news- paper work. In 1863 he participated in the emergency campaign to repel the Confederate invaders of Pennsylvania. Having entered the study of law in Philadelphia, his father's death, in 1864, led him to accept the position of Paymaster on the Camden and Amboy Railroad. Later he engaged with the Newark Advertiser, and rose from Reporter to Managing Editor. He subsequently attempted to launch the Newark Morning Register, a daily, which eventually came to grief. But he had meanwhile taken on as a side issue the editor- ship of Hours at Home, a little monthly published by the Scribners. and with such success that when this magazine was displaced by the original Scribner's Monthly, with the late Dr. J. G. Holland as Editor- in-chief, Mr. Gilder was associated with him as Managing Editor. Upon the death of Dr. Holland, in 1881, eleven years later, he became his successor, and has continued under the change of ownership and change of name to the Century.
WARNER, CHARLES DUDLEY, the well-known author, since 1884 has been one of the editors of Harper's Magasinc. He was born in Plainfield. Mass .. September 12, 1829, and was graduated from Hamilton College in 1851. In 1853 he was a member of a surveying party on the Missouri frontier. He was graduated from the law department of the University of Pennsylvania, in 1856, and for four years thereafter practiced law in Chicago. He became assistant edi- tor of the Hartford (Conn.) Press in 1860, was editor from 1861 to 1867, when it was consolidated with the Courant. when he became co- editor. He has traveled extensively. He has written and lectured on prison reform. university extension, and other social topics. while his more purely literary works include " My Summer in a Gar- den " (1870), " Backlog Studies " (1872), " My Winter on the Nile " (1876), " Being a Boy " (1877), " Captain John Smith " (1881). " Wash- ington Irving " (1881). " Their Pilgrimage " (1886), "Studies in the South and West " (1889), " A Little Journey in the World " (1890), and " Our Italy " (1891). "The Gilded Age " (1873) was written in collaboration with Samnel L. Clemens. He has received honorary degrees from Harvard and Dartmouth.
WHITE, RICHARD GRANT, is best known for his annotated edi- tion of Shakespeare's plays, which may be pronounced a classic of its kind. He also published volumes on foreign travel, on the Eng- lish language, and presenting an anthology of the poetry of the Civil War. Born in New York City May 22, 1821, and graduated from the University of the City of New York, he was intended for the church, but eventually studied medicine, then studied law, and having been admitted to the bar in 1845, finally turned to literature. In 1815 he became art critic on the staff of the New York Courier. He was one
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of the founders of the New York World in 1860. Chief of the United States Revenue Marine Bureau for the District of New York from 1858 to 1878, he also pursued his literary avocations during this period, especially devoting himself to his edition of the great poet. Under the pen-name of " A Yankee,' he also contributed weekly letters to the London Spectator during the Civil War. Stanford White, well- known architect of this city, is his son. He was himself the son of Richard Mansfield White, shipping merchant, of New York City; was the grandson of Rev. Calvin White, Rector of St. James' Parish ( Epis- copal), of Derby, Conn., and descended from John White, who came over in the ship Lion in 1632, settled at Cambridge, Mass., and in 1636 became one of the founders of Hartford, Conn., under Rev. Thomas Hooker.
WHITE, STANFORD, one of the most prominent architects of New York City, is also an officer of a number of corporations. He is President of the United Industrial Company, Vice-President of the Madison Square Garden Company, Vice-President of the Roanoke Rapids Power Company, Treasurer of the Self- threading Sewing Machine Company, and a director of the Garden City Company. Since 1881 he has been a member of the notable architectural firm of McKim, Mead & White, of this city. He was the architect of Madison Square Garden, Washington Memoriai Arch, and the buildings of the Metro- politan and Century clubs, the Uni- versity of New York, and the Univer- sity of Virginia, together with the Villard house on Madison Avenue, now owned by Whitelaw Reid. He is also an artistic interior decorator, the Metropolitan and Players' clubs, the Villard house, the Church of STANFORD WHITE. the Ascension and the altars of the Church of the Paulist Fathers affording examples of his work. He designed the architectural fea- tures for such sculptures by Augustus St. Gaudens as the Adams tomb in Washington and the pedestals of the Farragut statue in New York, the Chapin statue at Springfield, Mass, and the Lin- coln and Logan statues at Chicago. The son of the late Richard Grant White, the distinguished Shakespearian editor, critic, and au- thor, Mr. White was born in this city November 9, 1853, was in- structed in private schools and under tutors, was graduated from the University of New York, studied architecture under Charles D.
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Gambrill and H. H. Richardson, being chief assistant in the construc. tion of Trinity Church, Boston, Richardson's greatest work, and stud- ied and traveled in Europe from 1STS to 1880. He is a member of the Union, Metropolitan, Century, City, University, Riding, Grolier. Racquet, Players', Lambs, Kismet, Meadowbrook, Adirondack League, and New York Yacht clubs, and the Institute of Architects. He married in 1884 Bessie Smith, a descendant of Colonel Richard Smith, original patentee of Smithtown, L. I., and of General Nathaniel Woodhull, of the Revolution, and has a son-Lawrence Grant White.
SCRIBNER, CHARLES, present head of the notable publishing house of Charles Scribner's Sons, was born in this city, and in 1875 was graduated from Princeton College. He is a trustee of the Bowery Savings Bank and the State Trust Company, and is a director of the National Park Bank. He is a member of the Union, Union League, Century, University, Princeton, Aldine, and Morristown clubs. He married Louise Flagg.
APPLETON, WILLIAM HENRY, the venerable head of D. Apple- ton & Company, although long since retired from active participation in its management, is a director of the Central Trust Company, and a trustee of the New York Life Insurance Company and the New York Security and Trust Company. He founded the Appleton Church Home at Macon, Ga., for the orphans of the South. The eldest son of Daniel Appleton, founder of the publishing house, he was actively as- sociated with his father from the inception of the enterprise. The ex- periment of importing English books in connection with his drygoods business was first made by his father in 1825, and in 1830 he was placed in charge of the modest book department. In 1835, when the book trade was followed exclusively, he visited London and made advantageous arrangements with the publishing houses of Long- mans and John Murray. He also studied the book trade for three months in Germany. In 1836 he visited London again and established a permanent agency, publishing several religious books while there. In 1838 he became his father's partner. From his father's retirement in 1848 to his own retirement in 1894 he remained the active head of the great establishment. Some of the more important enterprises of the house during this period were the establishment of its printing office and bindery on Franklin Street in 1853, and its removal to Brooklyn in 1853; the publication of the " American Cyclopedia " from 1857 to 1863, and of the revised edition from 1873 to 1876; the " An- nual Cyclopedia," with its yearly volume, since 1861, and the estab- lishment of Popular Science Monthly.
APPLETON, DANIEL, Colonel of the Seventh Regiment, N. G. N. Y., is a prominent member of the well-known publishing firm of
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D. Appleton & Company, and is a director of the American Book Com- pany and A. J. Johnson Company. He is a member of the Union, Century, Riding, Aldine, New York Yacht, and other clubs. Born in this city, February 24, 1852, he is the son of the late John A. Apple- ton, who was long a member of the famous publishing house, being the second son of its founder, the original Daniel Appleton. He attended the public schools and completed his education in Germany, returning at the age of nineteen to enter the employ of the firm. Since 1871 he has been a member of the firm, and has long been man- ager of its finances. Three of his great-grandfathers were Revolution- ary soldiers, and his two grandfathers commissioned officers in the War of 1812. In his school days he was a member of the Boston Cadet Corps, and went into camp with it for five seasons. The Orange Riot of 1871 led him to join the militia. Entering the Seventh Regiment, he rose from the ranks through the grades of Corporal, Sergeant, and First Sergeant, becoming Second Lieutenant May 23, 1876, Captain January 13, 1879, when he recruited Company F from thirty-five to one hundred and three men, and Colonel of the regiment to succeed General Emmons Clark, July 19, 1889. He helped to garrison the old armory over Tompkins Market during the railroad riots of 1877, and led his regiment during the more recent street-car strike riot in Brooklyn. He is unmarried.
WILLIAMS, LEWIS ALFRED, is President and Treasurer of the New York History Company, is President and Treasurer of the L. A. Williams Publishing and Engraving Company, is President of the Century History Company, and is Manager of the American Railway Publishing Company. He is a member of the Ohio So- ciety of the City of New York. He was born in Bellevue. Ohio, January 22, 1849, and is the son of David Williams and Rebecca, daughter of Daniel Elliott. His paternal grandfather was David Williams, while his great-grandfather, also David Williams, was a Revolutionary soldier. The latter immigrated to America from Wales. Mr. Williams attended the public schools, and at the age of seventeen taught school in Iowa. He returned to Ohio to take charge of the books of a large milling and grain elevator company. Ile was subsequently cashier and bookkeeper in a banking and milling com- pany. In 1878 he engaged in the publication of county and city his- tories, bringing out histories of Cleveland, Ohio; Seattle, Wash .; Ash- tabula County. Ohio; Cincinnati, Ohio; Ashland County, Ohio; Colum- bus, Ohio; Chillicothe. Ohio; Louisville, Ky., and Geauga and Lake counties, Ohio. In 1887 he established at Cleveland, in connection with his brother, the Magasine of Western History, an historical month- ly. He removed to New York City and there continued its publi- cation, in 1891 changing the title to the National Magazine. After the death of Mrs. Martha J. Lamb, the Magazine of American History was
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acquired and consolidated with the National Magasine. A little later the property was sold to Samnel Victor Constant. Mr. Williams believed that worthy works on local history could be profitably published, with the elimination of the " commercial " feature which had hitherto been characteristic of such works. The feasibility of these ideas was vindicated when he successfully projected and published General James Grant Wilson's " Memorial History of the City of New York," John Russell Young's ~ Memorial His- tory of Philadelphia," a " History of the Bench and Bar of New York." edited by Judges Bischoff and MeAdam; " Leslie's History of the Greater New York," Seilhamer's " History of the Republican Party," and other similar works. He married, in 1870, Jessie, daugh- ter of II. M. Sinclair, of Bellevue, Ohio, by whom he had a daughter- Grace. Mrs. Williams died in 1872. He married, in 1879. Elizabeth, daughter of Stephen Boalt, of Norwalk, Ohio, by whom he has two sons-Lewis Alfred, Jr., and Gurth.
ARKELL, WILLIAM J., well-known publisher, was born in Canajoharie, Montgomery County, N. Y., in 1856, and is the son of ex-Senator James Arkell, widely known as the inventor and success- ful manufacturer of paper flour sacks. After receiving an academic education, Mr. Arkell entered the service of his father in the exten- sive mills at. Canajoharie. At the age of nineteen he nearly lost his life through an explosion, followed by a disastrous fire. in his father's mill. Afer his recovery, in connection with the late Joseph W. Drexel, he purchased the Albany Erening Journal, one of the most influential Republican newspapers in the State at the time, and con- ducted it with ability and success. In 1888 he became the proprietor of Judge, the well-known Republican cartoon publication, which was then struggling to secure recognition. By attaching to his staff the noted cartoonists, Bernard Gillam and Eugene Zimmerman, of Puck, and retaining the services of Grant Hamilton, the leading artist then and now of Judge, he brought about him a staff which commanded recognition for Judge as the leading colored cartoon paper in the world. In 1889 he purchased Leslie's Weekly from Mrs. Frank Leslie for $300,000, and gave this paper a higher reputation than it bad enjoyed before. More recently his company became the owner of the old and well-established family publication, Demorest's Monthly Maga- sinc. Mr. Arkell has retained his residence in Canajoharie, though living for the greater part of every week in New York. On the death of Joseph W. Drexel. he was selected as executor of Mr. Drexel's large estate, which he administered with fidelity and success. He has been connected, as a director, with the Canajoharie Bank and with several banks in New York, with the American Bank Note Company, and
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